Steve Lavigne - TMNT : Raphael

2018.04 Garden State Comic Fest, Morristown, NJ

Steve Lavigne was the first person hired by Eastman and Laird at Mirage Studios. He inked a backup story in the 1989 collected "Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles"

Along with Ryan Brown, they illustrated the artwork seen on the majority of officially licensed TMNT merchandise, which included art for Burger King, Pez, New Line Cinema, Konagi, Colorforms, and other toy lines.

I requested Steve to choose which Turtle and style he wanted to draw.

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Greg Hildebrandt had prepared a sketch for the charity auction, which featured Bebop and Rock Steady and April from TMNT. With this late twin Tim, the Brothers Hildebrandt worked collectively as fantasy and science fiction artists, producing work for books, movie posters, calendars, trading cards and other items.

Best know for their work on the Lord of the Rings, Marvel and DC Comics, Greg has been a fixture at the Garden State Comic Fest, meeting fans while actually working on one of his paintings. A great experience to be able to ask him questions while he works.

The TNMT pencil sketch was drawn at the request of the show organizers for the charity auction

Joe Barbosa - Simon's Circus

2018.04.27 East Coast Comic Con, Secaucus, NJ

Joe Barbosa released his comic Simon's Circus through 3Kidz comics. It is a hilarious and rude comic. Rude if you are a fan of clowns. Funny if you don't mind seeing a clown get trashed by an elephant. It seems the circus elephant Eddie hates clowns, as well as visitors to the circus. Eddie would rather be playing golf, when not beating up on clowns.

Definitely not for little kids

Simon's Circus
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John Beatty - Batman

2018.04.17 East Coast Comic Con, Secaucus, NJ

John Beatty entered the world of professional artist at age 15, when he was hired by Camelot Publishing to produce cartoons for computer instruction manuals. shortly after graduating from high school, he wrote and drew "Crime Smasher", which found publication Tom corrigan's Super Hero Comics. while attending a comic con in orlando, Beatty met AC Comics publisher Bill Black. After seeing Beatty's work, Black offered him a job as an inker.

Soon Bob McLeod asked Beatty to assist him on some pages, which inducted drawing backgrounds.

Beatty then had a second opportunity to show his work to Jim Shooter, who offered him work, if he came to New York. Beatty would spend 20 years inking titles such as Captain America, Punisher, Secret Wars, The Nam, The Adventures of Superman, Batman, JLA and many other titles.

Mike DeCarlo - Batman

2018.04.17 East Coast Comic Con, Secaucus, NJ

Mike DeCarlo has been involved with numerous titles as both penciler and inker.
With DC comics in the 1980s, DeCarlo work Batman, Tales of Teen Titans, Legion of Superheroes inking the pencils of George Perez, Greg LaRocque, Keith Griffen and Jim Aparo.

DeCarlo has also worked on diverse titles as Atari Force, Cartoon Network Block Party, Crisis on Infinite Earths, Fantastic Four, Pinky and the Brain, Simpsons, Superman, Bugs Bunny, NFL SuperPro, Thor, Conan the Barbarian

Bongo Comics Radioactive Man series received an Eisner Award in 2002 for Best Humor Publication, while DeCarlo was one of the series artists